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Docking of India with Asia

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As India converged towards Asia, its leading edge dipped northwards. The floor of the NeoTethys Sea subsided progressively as India approached the active continental margin of Asia. By Early Cretaceous, the seafloor had sunk considerably to form a deep depression. Thick deposits of flysch accumulated all along the periphery of the passive continental margin of India, and in the depression in front of the active margin of Asia. Steepening of the shelf slope sometimes triggered submarine slides and generated debris flows and attendant turbidity currents. These phenomena gave rise to wild flysch characterized by olistostrome of chaotic texture and structure. It appears that by the Late Cretaceous the two continents had come very close to one another (Fig. 17.1) and the sliding of the seafloor under the Asian plate had resulted in the formation of an elongate deep oceanic trench. In this deep depression was deposited material derived from the converging continents, predominantly from the Indian plate.

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Valdiya, K.S. (2016). Docking of India with Asia. In: The Making of India . Society of Earth Scientists Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25029-8_17

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